An angle he never imagined

[wendyzski]

My sense of justice is quite tickled today.

If you watch the news, you may have seen that an arrest has finally been made in a murder case from 1964. Two black teenagers were beaten and then tied to an engive block and thrown into the river to drown. The suspect, now 71, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Today he stood before a judge and was formally charged with the crime.

The judge is a black woman.

I am amused, and pleased.

Comments

[seamstrix.livejournal.com]

And judging from when it happened and how old the victims were, it's very likely that she's about the same age that they would have been had they lived.

I love it when irony bites monsters like this in the butt.

[capi.livejournal.com]

*low whistle*

*heh*

[woody-whistler.livejournal.com]

Nice!

A couple of Sundays ago we celebrated Martin Luther King's heritage. Our pastor, who is a black woman, recalled her childhood, when discrimination was still a fact of life. Right before this happenned, however, my seven year old daughter went to children's church, hand-in-hand with her good friend, a African-American girl about her age.

We're making progress!

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I worried, at first seeing your post, that as satisfactory as such a trial must be, that the defendant may not be getting a fair and impartial trial under such a judge.

My mate pointed out to me that, while jury selection is often influenced by background of the potential jurors, a judge is would probably be considered effectively impartial just because she (or he) is really a professional. I guess that makes sense.

That said, I hope that, if this is actually the guilty party, that he ends up in a world of very public hurt.

[dragonsblog.livejournal.com]

I have seen you on baaaaabyanimals before, and probably squealed over your bunny icon :). I have wanted a bunny since I was 10. I read your bunny stories on your LJ and they made me giggle incessantly. Do you mind if I friend you? And I'm a gamer/ ren faire geek girl myself. You don't have to friend me back if you don't want to, that's cool.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

sure! The more the merrier. I just saw my first bunny-yawn. Soooo cute!

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

I posted this same story in my own journal. I actually cried a little realizing there may finally be justice. If anyone's ever read the Dark Tower series (I'm in the middle of the final one) this rings true because of Susannah's own experiences that year, in that same place.